[hellodevnull]

I had never heard of Chapel and was looking for something along those lines.

What's interesting about it that makes it worth taking a look?

[nimrody]

It's a language for high performance computing (HPC). I think it's the only one that survived out of three languages competing at the time: Fortress (Sun), Chapel (Cray), and X10.

See https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan/Teaching/B629/2010-Fall...

Designed mostly for scientific computing on highly parallel machines. Not your typical web-application development :)